Nevertheless, speaking in front of public is not trouble-free. Based on the writer’s experience in Public Speaking class, the writer noticed that there were some students who tended to be so nervous or anxious when delivering speech that it bothered the transmission of the information from the speaker to the listeners. This is supported by a research conducted by Young (1990: 539) which stated, “several researchers have found that speaking a foreign language in the classroom can be very anxiety-provoking, they intuitively judge speaking as more anxiety-producing than reading, writing, or listening. In addition, based on the writer’s experience in Public Speaking class, some
female acquaintance of the writer admitted that they were anxious when giving speech while some male acquaintance of the writer admitted that they were not anxious when giving speech. Therefore, the writer assumes that women tend to be more anxious than men in speaking in front of public. This is supported by a previous study conducted by Misra and McKean (2000), as cited in Paalhar (2009), which stated that females experienced higher anxiety than males. This verifies that anxiety is present in different gender. |